Vela Kappa – If there were ever a world that embodied the perfect world for commerce it was Vela. This icon of what some called the "Trader Religion" was ideal in every respect. It had the most and largest orbital platforms of all the Seven Worlds. P6 was the first and most massive. This colossal island in the sky was clearly visible from planet side during the daylight hours. What made Vela so special was not the platforms, or the free trade statutes, or even the beauty of its green and verdant surface, but it was the imperturbable attitude of the one and a half billion citizens who called this unique world home. Everyone was in some way connected with trade and commerce. It was as if the entire world was of one mind set, focused to a pinpoint on trade with out the constraint of scruples.

The location of Vela Kappa was no doubt the reason for this almost spiritual devotion to commerce. She was placed equidistant from the other six worlds in a nearly perfect star pattern with Vela at the center. The difference in distances of their respective suns mere light minutes, therefore every trade route passed directly through the Kappa System to the other worlds. Even lowly customs officials had a stake on one or more Trader vessel and its cargo.

Vela Industries originally founded this Trader World during the arrival of the Stellar Challenger, the last vessel of the Second Wave to reach New Space after the Great Darkness. Vela Industries had specialized in massive mercantile space platforms back on old Earth. The Challenger was an enormous ship over three kilometers long. It had been planned to be the first of three other vessels that would be converted to space platforms for trade exchange high above the .95g gravity well of Vela. Unfortunately she was the only ship that survived the voyage and therefore had to be disassembled to create the other lesser platforms at the Lagrange points. Over time the Velans had forgotten their origins, like every other human on the seven worlds. P6 had become an unknown monument to the frailty of human culture to remember its past, and because of this be doomed to repeat its mistakes.